Brendan Venter believes winning is becoming a drug for his table-topping Saracens.
Saracens beat Wasps 22-6 to make it eight wins in a row and although rugby director Venter believes they will not remain unbeaten, Saracens now lead the table by six points.
"We played really well. After the excitement of beating South Africa at Wembley on Tuesday they still managed to produce that performance on a bitterly cold day," said Venter.
"Winning is becoming a bit of a drug. We won't win every game, that's the nature of rugby. But we are very difficult to beat and our line-out and scrum were magnificent.
"Someone asked Tiger Woods his motivation and he replied that he hated losing. The same question was put to Roger Federer and he said it was his love of winning. I want us to be like Federer.
"I enjoy just being with and working with these guys. We are a very positive group who enjoy each other's company and not just because we are winning.
"We lost in the cup at Northampton but the atmosphere was just as good because they gave it their absolute all up there.
"We have a tremendous team spirit and I am very proud of them."
Wasps head coach Tony Hanks said: "No excuses. We were not accurate enough on the day, which was a bad day at the office.
"It's all very well talking about who is missing on Test duty, but we had people out and so did they.
"This group of Wasps players has been earning praise in recent weeks so it's about what we did in this 80 minutes.
"I am disappointed with this display, one from which we did not deserve a losing bonus point."
Derick Hougaard missed as many penalties as he scored as Saracens crushed Wasps in the scrum, but he was still able to rack up 17 points while Dave Walder kicked two penalties for Wasps.
Outstanding hooker Schalk Brits scored the game's only try in the 12th minute, thundering over on the left after a Saracens driving maul had proved too powerful for the visitors.
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